Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted Tuesday that he visited late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s private island — after FBI files debunked his claim that he broke off contact in 2005.
Lutnick, 64, confessed to senators that he had two encounters “that I can recall” with Epstein after 2005, including a 2012 trip to his so-called “pedophile island” and drinks in 2011, as revealed by the FBI’s Jan. 30 release of case files.
“We had lunch on the island, that is true, for an hour,” Lutnick told a Senate subcommittee, describing the stop as an innocent and brief stopover with his family.
“We left with all of my children, with my nannies and my wife. All together. We were on a family vacation. We were not apart… I don’t recall why we did it, but we did.”
That visit occurred about seven years after Lutnick previously claimed to have broken off relations with his infamous Upper East Side neighbor, who pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to soliciting prostitution from a minor before facing federal charges in 2019.
Lutnick told The Post in October that he and his wife Allison were so revolted by a tour of Epstein’s townhouse in 2005 that he “decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
